Principal Mechanical Engineer

Vacancy Principal Mechanical Engineer

Location:

Glasgow ||

Contract:

Permanent || Salary:

Competitive

Only a 2-minute walk from Buchanan Street, George Square and Queen Street Station, our Glasgow office is an airy, sophisticated, open plan space. The office is conveniently placed in the centre of Glasgow’s prime retailing core and restaurant circuit. With modern, ergonomically enhanced work spaces and barista style coffee machine, the office is a hub for focussed working and productivity.

Purpose

As a senior member of the department your responsibilities will include the delivery and project management of the Mechanical Services Design on assigned projects. You shall also ensure that you have a high-level understanding of all other major MEP projects and offer support andassistancewhenrequired. You shall alsobe responsible formaintainingand improving the quality and efficiency of the Mechanical Services design and post contract implementation offered by Harley Haddow.

You shall have a supervisory role over junior engineering staff assigned to you and your projects and shallassistin their personal development both in their education and their technical experience.

You shall be expected to act as the lead consultant on projects providing M&E representation and input at key stages throughout the project to other members of the project team as well as ensuring that the M&E requirements are communicated and delivered within Harley Haddow.

The position demands excellent communication skills; you will be representing Harley Haddow through direct contact with clients and other design team members. You are expected torepresentthe company at meetings in both Mechanical and Mechanical Services disciplines.

You shallcommencecarrying out wider management duties as part of your role within the business. This will include the programming of work, managing your own and other workloads, ensuring critical deadlines are met, ensuring QA is undertaken swiftly and consistently, you will be the point of contact between the engineering staff and the senior management and will be expected to provide team updates as and when required.

Roles and Responsibilities

Key Areas of Focus

Apply and enforce office procedures and basic engineering principles

• General administrative duties
• Development and management of Assistant and Apprentice Engineers
• Leading multiple projects
• Monitor and invoice project fees

Strategy setting and Concept Design as part of RIBA Stage 1, 2 & 3 Design Process.

• Lead in the development of M&E Services strategies
• Manage the production of scheme design drawings (from concept right through to detailed design) via the management of junior staff
• Prepare outline M&E specification in BCIS format including environmental strategies.
• Where appropriate leadin the preparation of the Stage 2 and 3 MEP Reports
• Assistin the preparation of BCIS elemental M&E cost plans.
• Understand and work within the commercial framework for projects.
• Prepare and deliver project presentations to client teams

Detailed Design as part of RIBA Stage 4 production.

• Lead and manage the delivery of Mechanical
  
  Services detail design.
• Manage, plan and programme
  
  Mechanical detailed design process.
• Supervise and plan workload for junior engineering staff on projects youare responsible for.
• Ensure that
  
  Mechanical
  
  Services Detailed output meets quality requirements.
• Provide conduit between design teams,clients and HH
• Ensure project delivery meets deadlines and Client’s brief. This may include dealing with last minute changesetcbut these should be professionally dealt with.

Software – Advantageous but not required

Expert in the use of all necessary design software not limited to thoseidentifiedbelow

• CAD
• Revit
• Bluebeam
• Evacomp
• IES
• Manual Calculations
• Chorus
• Word/Excel
• Actively develops the…